How Can I Contact Sublimation Sportswear Sewing Factories in Vietnam?

Hi, my name is Chris. I have been working with sublimation sportswear sewing factories in Vietnam since 2008. Are you looking to produce small quantity which means less than 1,000 garments per artwork? If so your options are limited because most well managed sublimation sportswear sewing factories that start off small graduate quickly to large volume orders.

I do know small quantity sublimation sportswear sewing factories but they require close supervision and additional quality control costs. If you would like to work with small or large volume factories then let's connect.

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Imagine that you have an idea to produce sublimated surf shorts, sports jerseys or mouse pads. Would it be great to get inside a sublimation apparel factory to see how they print and sew? Would you like to check the quality yourself? I can get you inside Vietnamese sublimation factories for a tour. Watch my video for more details.

I recommend you work with the sewing factory. In this case you must be very careful to control the print quality. There is a good chance that the sewing factory does not have the printing expertise and they trust the dye sublimation printer to do a good job.

My advice is to negotiate a quality control check into your terms with with the sewing factory. Be very specific on how and when the printed fabric will be checked and by whom. I would have the sewing factory send you a printed fabric sample to approve and also send the fabric to either SGS or Interlock to check for colorfastness and pilling. This puts the sewing factory on notice to manage the printing well. If they refuse to agree to these testing terms then it means they are not confident in their printing partner.

Are you ready to contact sublimation sportswear sewing factories in Vietnam?

Cost of sewing means CMT price. CMT stands for cut, make and trim. It is the sewing price component of making a garment. Fabric, trims and accessory cost are excluded. Management fees are excluded. Transportation costs are excluded. Profit is excluded.

CMT for a t-shirt (> 2,000 pieces) is ~ $US 1.5
CMT for a polo-shirt (> 2,000 pieces) is ~ $US 2.5
CMT for a hoodie (> 2,000 pieces) is ~ $US 3.5

Are you ready to get costings from sublimation sportswear sewing factories in Vietnam?

They can but don't want to and in 90% of the cases they won't. Shipping is handled by freight forwarders (logistic companies.). The freight forwarders pick up your goods at the Vietnam port and manage them by sea or air to the port of entry of your country. There they manage getting your goods passed through customs which means paying your import tax and clearing the goods. They also manage the last mile shipping to get the goods from the port of entry to your warehouse.

Sewing factories will sell to you on FOB terms which does not include international shipping nor paying of your import duties.

Sublimation sportswear sewing factories in Vietnam are looking for business.

Sublimation sportswear sewing factory Process

Production can start when all of the trims are received, checked and inventoried, and the fabric is available PLUS the pre-production samples are approved. The goal is to minimize garment manufacturing lead time during each step.

First the fabric is laid out on the table and the marker is laid on top of the fabric. Cutter staff cut along the marker lines. The result is stacks of panels. A panel might be the right sleeve or front chest, for example. The panel stacks are bundled together and sent to the sewing lines. Sublimation sportswear sewing factories in Vietnam may use a different process if they are doing custom numbering.

Often printing and/or embroidery needs to be done before sewing. So, special care is taken to separate the sleeve, for example, to be sent away to the embroidery supplier. Hopefully the embroidery sub-contractor is not backlogged or else the embroidery step could take a week when in fact the job is finished in one day.

Once the line is ready, the line leader will assign sewing operations and the first couple of garments are made. It takes the line 2 – 3 days to reach maximum capacity and ensure the quality control. This is called “setting up the line”. After that, it’s all about improving the line efficiency and constantly checking quality. Generally speaking, one sewing line can produce 900 garments per day.

Quality control is done in line and there is a separate quality control section between the lines and ironing. Any defective garments are either fixed or removed from production.

Ironing happens after the final QC and before folding. Sublimation sportswear sewing factories in Vietnam are responsible for doing in-house QC and I recommend hiring an outside QC party as well.

Folding includes adding accessories like tissue, silica gel bags, and hang tags before the folded garment is inserted into poly-bags and put into the carton box. Garment manufacturing lead time includes many small steps. The more you understand the more you can find ways to speed things up.